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Monks Make Wily Guards and Santa Claus is Dead
On December 7, 2017 December 7, 2017 By Sarah AngletonIn Holidays
As we enter into the busy Christmas season with the official start of Advent this past Sunday, I suppose it's fitting to pause for a moment to observe the day when Santa Claus died. Yesterday (December 6) was recognized as the 1,674th anniversary of the death of one of history's most widely honored saints.
Celebrated for his gift-giving and kindness, particularly to the children of the poor, and remembered fondly for slapping a heretic across the face during the Council of Nicaea, St. Nicholas is still the hippest 4th century bishop around.
By Aloxe – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3138918
And no one loves St. Nicholas as much as the people of Bira, Italy, where his remains have been at rest within the Basilica di San Nicola for more than 900 years. But the saint isn't from Italy originally, and no, he's also not from the North Pole. He also most likely didn't make his home with an army of toy-making elves and a herd of magical reindeer. Sometimes, people (like history bloggers) make things up. Sorry.
St. Nicholas actually spent much of his life serving as Bishop of Myra, a Greek town on the Mediterranean Coast, in what is modern-day Antalya, Turkey. Most people assumed that's where the saint was buried, and he remained there until 1087 when some rowdy Italian elves (or sailors) from Bira spirited away his jolly bones, landing themselves, I would think, permanently on the naughty list.
There are different versions of the story, of course. Italian church historians tend to refer to the theft as the "translation" of the St. Nicholas relics from one place to the other. They favor stories that suggest cooperation of the monks guarding the tomb who stepped aside both in fear for the relics under the threat of Arab occupation, and because they read the signs suggesting Nicholas himself was ready to move. This isn't quite how the tale is understood by Turkish archaeologists who would like the stolen relics back.
But archaeologists working in Antalya recently claimed they might have evidence that would change the story anyway. Beneath the ancient St. Nicholas Church in Southern Turkey, researchers detected a previously unknown crypt beneath a mosaic floor. Because historic floor removal is a delicate process, it could be a while before the crypt can be fully revealed, and any resting occupants examined.
For now it's enough evidence for the Turkish archaeologists to publicly claim that the bones stolen away to Bira probably didn't belong to St Nicholas anyway. They reference records from the time that suggest instead the wily guard monks tricked the thieves and sent the remains of another less well known priest to Italy.
The word from Bira is that they will assume they hold the true remains until world-wide experts reassure them, and this silly Turkish ploy to steal their pilgrimage tourism dollars can be brought to a close (I'm paraphrasing a bit here). I'm not sure what the response has been from the at least three other locations that claim to possess bones of the saint.
See kids? He's just fine. And jolly as ever. By Oldschool at en.wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
And therein lies the rub with relics. They're hard to verify. All we really know for certain is that St. Nicholas is definitely dead. That's what a lot of traumatized children are learning this holiday season. A friend recently posted on Facebook the contents of an e-mail sent to her by her child's fourth grade teacher expressing concern that student-written responses to an article about the discovery in Turkey revealed some holiday anxiety. I suspect this was not the only teacher who has encountered this tricky problem this school year.
The good news is that regardless of where he was buried, the spirit of St. Nicholas lives on in an undisclosed magical location at the North Pole surrounded by flying reindeer and wily elves, and no way is anyone going to discover his bones there.
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M.B. Henry
Wow it will be interesting to see what's under that floor. I had no idea there was a grave robbery with St. Nicholas. What a fascinating read, thanks for sharing!
It will be interesting. I have no idea how you determine an identity from 1600 year old bones.
Bruce Goodman
I would love to have been at the Council of Nicaea to see Santa slap the nasty heretic – presumably with his bright red bag stuffed with leggo and iPads.
That's certainly how I picture it going down.
Pat Wahler
Interesting story, Sarah! Can't wait to find out what's in that newly discovered crypt. Maybe a few reindeer?
Hmm…maybe. That might answer some questions.
TammieLP
Just think if they find a reindeer skeleton or an elven mass grave under that floor! I mean, blogger embellishments aside, there's got to be some true basis for the legend of Santa's minions.
That would be amazing!
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Q: Why does numpy let you add different size arrays? Why doesn't numpy throw an error when you do something like
np.ones((5,5)) + np.ones(5)

Such addition is not clearly defined in linear algebra, and it just took me several hours to track down a bug that boiled down to this

A: np.ones((5,5)) + np.ones(5)
np.ones((5,5)) + np.ones(4) <- This would give a error.

since np.ones(5) fit the size of each row it will to a element wise addition to each row.
That's simply how numpy works. I's is not a linear algebra module.
Here is a short example of how you could do it, this does need to be extended, with more logic and cleverness. Just a proof of concept.
import numpy as np

class myMatrixClass(np.ndarray):
    def __add__(self,val):
        if (hasattr(val, '__iter__') and self.shape != val.shape):
            print "not valid addition!"
        else:
            return super(myMatrixClass, self).__add__(val)

In [33]: A = myMatrixClass( shape=(5,5))

In [34]: A[:] = 1

In [35]: B = A + 1

In [36]: B
Out[36]:
myMatrixClass([[ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.],
        [ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.],
        [ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.],
        [ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.],
        [ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.]])

In [37]: C = A + np.ones(5)
not valid addition!

A: I believe this is because numpy broadcasts smaller arrays to fit the shape of the larger array. See: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.broadcasting.html
This may not necessary coincide with "normal linear algebra" however.
it is very well exaplined in the above doc:
a = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
b = 2.0
a * b

Results in:
array([ 2.,  4.,  6.])

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How shell-shock shaped the Battle of the Somme
First World War: soldiers of the English infantry in France, running out of their trenches at the signal to assault, Somme 1916. Credit: Fototeca Storica Nazionale.
16 April 2016 • 6:00am
Taylor Downing
Private Arthur Hubbard, a clerk from Streatham in south London, went over the top at 7.30am on 1 July 1916, the bloody first day of the Battle of the Somme. What he experienced over the next few hours changed him forever. He and his unit, the 14th London, a Pals Battalion, got into the German lines that morning.
They had orders not to take prisoners. When three wounded Germans, badly bleeding, emerged from a dugout Hubbard finished them off. Then a British officer was shot by a sniper as he stood by him. Later that afternoon as he withdrew to the British lines, a mass of soil from a nearby shell buried him. His mates eventually dragged him out and back into the lines.
Hubbard's family next heard from him in a convalescence hospital in Ipswich. He told his mother not to worry, that he was a bit shaky and suffering from 'severe headaches' but otherwise he was fit and well and would make a quick recovery. Unfortunately Private Hubbard did not recover.
Frame of film promoting the work of Dr Arthur Hurst shows a shell shock victim. Note the staring eyes. Credit: Wellcome Library
He had a bad case of shell-shock. The letters home went on for several weeks, trying to reassure his family he was well. But he admitted that recalling the terrible scenes he had witnessed upset him every time he thought about them.
No army today would go into battle without having lined up a team of psychiatrists to help soldiers with the trauma they are likely to experience in combat – seeing mates killed or wounded in front of them or being surrounded by corpses and body parts. Forward Psychiatry is part of the apparatus of a modern army. But one hundred years ago the situation was very different.
When the battle of the Somme opened, the British army had its medical facilities on full standby. There were 14 Casualty Clearing Stations waiting to deal with the expected physical injuries. Each one was a mini hospital with operating theatres, X-ray machines, a laboratory and wards with up to 1,500 beds.
A shell shock victim staggers back from the front and needs help to work. Credit: Imperial War Museum
But these were soon overwhelmed. As well as 19,240 deaths, there were 35,493 casualties on 1 July alone. Although the popular view of the Somme is dominated by the massacres of that first day, this was just the beginning. The battle went on for another 140 days into mid November, with an average of 2,500 losses per day.
What the British army was not prepared for was the appalling scale of the mental casualties the battle would create. The term shell-shock had been around since the beginning of trench warfare at the end of 1914. It was first used by a doctor in an article in The Lancet in February 1915 to describe what was thought to be the physical 'commotion' in the brain caused by being too near to an explosion – literally the shock from a shell.
Medical Officers in front line aid stations described men coming in with dreadful cases of physical paralysis, shakes, temporary blindness or deafness, and amnesia.
British troops firing 60 pounder Mark II battery near la Boisselle during the first battle of Bapaume on the Somme, March. Credit: Alamy
In the first months of war, the numbers were small. In the British army, twelve hundred men reported in with shell-shock in the last six months of 1915.
Suddenly, as the Somme offensive got under way this trickle turned into a flood. Captain Frederick Steadman, a doctor struggling to cope in a field ambulance dressing station, wrote to his wife describing the endless line of shell-shock victims who had 'an exhausted look, with their faces twitching, and hands and arms shaking constantly.'
"It was frequently said that a nervy man would make other men around him feel nervy."
If the daytime was bad enough, at night it grew even worse. Victims would whisper to Steadman, 'The dreams sir, I dare not go to sleep because I dream so of…' and he would describe the horrific sights he has witnessed, of mates being blown to pieces alongside, of being buried under debris during one of the massive bombardments.
The worst thing for Steadman was having to send the men back to the front when they seemed to have calmed down. He wrote: 'You cannot help them long, just a few days and then back they must go. If they were kept long the hospital would be absolutely crowded out. There would be no men to fight.'
German prisoners helping to carry wounded British soldiers back to their trenches after an attack near Ginchy during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. Credit: PA
Steadman had put his finger on it as far as the army high command was concerned. Their fear was that shell-shock was contagious. It was frequently said that a nervy man would make other men around him feel nervy. And there was the great fear of malingering. If a man could see his mate being sent away for rest, he would try it on too.
Indeed most Medical Officers spoke of men who would turn up at a Dressing Station without any physical wounds and when asked what was the matter would proudly declare 'shell-shock, Sir.'
The generals feared that shell-shock would not only take thousands of men out of the fighting but that it would attack the morale of the entire British army. So they saw it not so much as an affliction but as a threat. As the Battle unfolded, units that were thought to have too high an incidence of shell-shock were punished.
One of the first war photographers, Roger Fenton, records shell shocked Captain Lord Balgonie, Grenadier Guards, Crimean War, 1853-1856. Credit: Quint Lox
The 11th Borders, a Pals Battalion know as the 'Lonsdales' raised in the towns, farms and mines of today's Cumbria, went over the top on 1 July and suffered one of the highest casualty rates of that day. When the survivors refused to go over the top again a few days later because so many of them were shell shocked, they were accused of having 'a deplorable state of discipline and an absence of courage and of any soldierly qualities'.
"Men were to be classed as NYDN 'Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous' and it was left to doctors in specialist centres to decide what they were suffering from."
The survivors were paraded in front of their peers and reprimanded. Moreover, their Medical Officer was sent home in disgrace for apparently agreeing that the men were suffering from shell-shock. A clear message was sent out to Medical Officers along the Western Front. They were not to show sympathy to Shell Shock victims.
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, after four and half months of bitter, relentless fighting the British army had lost the unbelievable number of 420,000 men dead and wounded. Of these about 60,000 were lost to shell-shock. In November the Royal Army Medical Corps banned Medical Officers from using the term shell-shock.
Men were to be classed as NYDN 'Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous' and it was left to doctors in specialist centres to decide what they were suffering from. Not surprisingly, in the dreadful battles around Passchendaele one year on from the Somme, the official figures list only 5,346 cases of shell-shock.
Many of the lessons learned on the Somme did however go into military thinking. Today a fundamental principle in the approach to what is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is that treatment should be provided as quickly and as near to the combat zone as possible.
Private Arthur Hubbard never recovered from his shell-shock. When he left the army he struggled to return to civilian life, traumatised by the dreadful things he had seen and done on 1 July.
Tragically, even though only in his early 20s, he took his own life two years after the end of the war. Shell-shock was cited as a contributing factor. Hubbard's death was never included in the official statistics. But he was a casualty of the Great War just as much as those who died in the mud of the Somme.
Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing is published by Little Brown (£25.00). To order your copy for £20.00 with free p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
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Division2 is pretty interesting so far. Well done here by hips to not give away a map win to DA.
Perhaps Persu is needed for DA to win some more?
DA took 4 pents and 9 Quads on DM3 and lost by almost 100 frags ! ? !
Katsku isällisin ottein näytti miten dm2 viedään!
Some rule drama in the beginning, kinda made me lose the momentum from our previous game against CMT. My connection also started lagging for some reason during this game, spiking so frequently that I couldn't really get my game going. In addition Cyr was lagging quite heavily and timing out during dm3.
Pretty much just got frustrated during dm3, was too focused on my own problems. Didn't want to play dm2 because of the spiking, but persu wasn't available so there was no choice. Horrible round for us. Many good take over attempts and generally the rest of our team played nicely. I just ran where ever feeling pissed off especially every time I got a weapon and lost it due to easy mistakes... oh well.


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Kinly announces Tom Martin as new CEO
Meghan van Zyl on 01 June
Kinly – the leading specialist in AV systems integration and remote collaboration solutions – has announced Tom Martin as its CEO to further develop the impressive growth of the business in recent years.
Tom takes the reins at Kinly following a highly successful spell as Managing Director for Northern Europe. His experience with the company stretches back 15 years, beginning with Viju in the Nordics with roles in support, services and operations. With a passion for audio, his achievements and successes have seen him climb through the ranks to VP Technical Operation in Norway before Managing Director roles in Norway and, latterly, Northern Europe.
Based in the company's Norway office, Tom envisages a bright future not only for Kinly, but for the AV sector as a whole. "This is an incredibly exciting time for Kinly and I am delighted to be announced as the new CEO," said the 43 year old, before adding: "The past couple of years have set up the business for growth across the worldwide market and, with Kinly, we have the scale, assets & highly experienced teams to fully support local & global customers."
Tom will continue to drive Kinly's expansion with the latest technology offerings combined with a focus on service and support. He adds: "Coming from a services background, I am proud to say it's the dedicated Kinly service that sets us apart. Together with our valued technology partners, I'm looking forward to fantastic opportunities as hybrid work models continue to grow in popularity around the world."
The appointment received the unanimous backing from the Kinly Board of Directors, with Chairman Jos Zandhuis adding: "In Tom, we have a CEO who knows the business inside-out and has a proven track record both as an executive and a leader with a passion for commitment to excellent service that's infectious. Under his management, we have seen Kinly become the number one player across Europe, so have the fullest confidence in his ability to lead Kinly through its next phase of growth and development."
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namespace Kunstmaan\FixturesBundle\Populator\Methods;

use Symfony\Component\Inflector\Inflector;

class ArrayAdd implements MethodInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function canSet($object, $property, $value)
    {
        return is_array($value) && null !== $this->findAdderMethod($object, $property);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function set($object, $property, $value)
    {
        $method = $this->findAdderMethod($object, $property);
        foreach ($value as $val) {
            $object->{$method}($val);
        }
    }

    /**
     * finds the method used to append values to the named property.
     *
     * @param mixed  $object
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     *
     * @return null|string
     */
    private function findAdderMethod($object, $property)
    {
        if (is_callable([$object, $method = 'add'.$property])) {
            return $method;
        }
        if (class_exists('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\StringUtil') && method_exists('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\StringUtil', 'singularify')) {
            foreach ((array) Inflector::singularize($property) as $singularForm) {
                if (is_callable([$object, $method = 'add'.$singularForm])) {
                    return $method;
                }
            }
        }
        if (is_callable([$object, $method = 'add'.rtrim($property, 's')])) {
            return $method;
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If you have been involved in a car accident caused by another in the state of California and are still suffering the repercussions, you may be entitled to pain and suffering damages. Any person who has undergone a serious injury will suffer great trauma. Such injuries can also lead to extreme financial distress to the victim and his or her family. This article explores pain and suffering. For specific information, consider seeking the legal support of a skilled personal injury attorney who has experience in handling auto accident lawsuits such as Heiting and Irwin. An attorney with the right experience will guide you through the available legal options and help you understand what option is best for you.
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Q: Number of permutations with a Spearman's distance below a threshold Let $[n] = \{1, . . . , n\}$ be a universe of elements. Let $S_n$ be the set of permutations on $[n]$ and for $\pi\in S_n$, let $\pi (i)$ denote the rank of the element $i$. The Spearman's footrule distance is defined as
$$F(\pi) = \sum_{i=1}^n |i − \pi(i)|.$$
I would like to find the number of permutations that satisfy $F(\pi) \leqslant n^2/4$ for $n=4, 6, 8, \ldots$ or at least a tight upper bound.
ACHIEVED SO FAR
Property: for $i=1,\ldots,n/2$ the rank $\pi(i)$ is less than or equal to $n/2$, and for $i=n/2+1,\ldots,n$ the rank $\pi(i)$ is greater than or equal to $n/2+1$.
I know that the permutations that meet the property above satisfy $F(\pi) \leqslant n^2/4$. This is because the maximum value of $F(\pi)$ over all $\pi$ is $n^2/2$ (for even $n$).
However, for large $n$, the number of such permutations meeting this property is very small ($n/2!·n/2!$) compared to the total number of permutations ($n!$).


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5 VR/AR STL Association Members Share Their First Experience That Hooked Them On XR
The reason why XR proponents really really love it? It does something to your brain.
At a recent VR/AR Association STL meetup, the panelists cited a lot of reasons to have confidence in consumer and commerical adoption of AR/VR/XR technology.
The conversation was fascinating but there was simply not enough time to get into all the details, so we followed up with the five panelists to revisit the discussion. As always with our Voices series, EQ asked everyone the same question: (Answers have been lightly edited for clarity and are posted in the order received)
When people talk about VR they often cite its strengths as an "emotionally engaging" platform. Can you describe the moment when your perspective shifted from someone who is dabbling in VR/AR to someone who decided to build a business or product on this technology? What was the feeling that convinced you to pursue it and what was the insight that you had into what XR could achieve that was previously not possible?
Ian Renz, Founder of ShowMeVirtual, St. Louis' first immersive media agency.
I can pinpoint the exact moment I realized that both businesses and consumers would fall in love with this technology, and that the industry was here to stay (despite the failure on the consumer-side of the industry a few decades ago);
In summer 2014, after receiving my VR developer's kit headset, I began playing every game and tech demo I could find online. But it wasn't until I played a demo called Weightless, an experience that has you embody an astronaut that freely floats around a space station, that I was truly convinced of the power of this technology.
The experience had you use your own actual hands (instead of a controller) to interact with various objects, and when I reached out to grab a screw floating in front of me, my brain was so convinced it was actually there, that I felt like I had actually clasped this digital screw in my hand.
As I sat there, laughing audibly to a room of no one, my mind was reeling with the possibilities for brands to use this technology to teleport their audiences and deliver experiences never before possible. From that moment on, there was no other option in the world for me than to create an agency solely dedicated to creating immersive experiences for others.
James Kane, Immersive Tech Lead at Paradowski Creative
I've always been a science fiction fan and in those imagined universes, XR-like technology is nothing new.
But I realized AR and VR could actually be feasible after I tried the consumer release of the Oculus Rift in early 2016 and began dabbling in 3D and VR programming. That's when it dawned on me that even as a web developer from the Midwest, I could break ground in this exciting new industry that so resembled my childhood sci-fi dreams.
That's the emotional pull for me, but there's also a basic economic bet. The smartphone boom a decade ago and the rise of PCs and the web in decades earlier minted countless successful careers and companies— I'm betting that XR tech will be the next major platform, and I'm working to position myself and my agency as the experts in this emerging market.
Sarah Hill, Founder & CEO of Healium and co-organizer, making guided meditation escapes in XR to counter acute stress with biofeedback.
For Healium's VR and AR apps, we do EEG brain maps on users before and after experiencing our content to see how the user's brain responds.
We decided to create biometrically controlled content when our Chief Science officer sent me a before/after screenshot of the fast activity in the user's brain four minutes before Healium and four minutes after. VR downshifts the nervous system.
Your Brain on VR (Image provided by Healium/StoryUp)
VR has been clinically validated to reduce anxiety. There are more than 800 published studies on the therapeutic use cases of VR. You can see the brain temporarily changing.
In 2012, we started doing virtual tours with Veterans. After thousands of tours, we noticed that VR appeared to be impacting their physiology. They weren't just watching this kind of media, they were feeling it.
We went on to do side by side comparisons of 2D vs VR media and how each impact physiology: VR is more memorable. VR is shared more, watched longer, and more emotionally memorable.
Don Harvey Jr., Co-Founder of HarvinAR, focused on the industrial design and manufacturing space.
Honestly, when Microsoft announced the HoloLens it was that moment, sitting in London, KY at a BP Gas Station watching the announcment on my tablet, I knew that it would have a major impact on the Industrial Sector.
I had roughly over 5 years of experience working with Equipment Manufacturers, Distributors, and End Users in Automotive and Food Processing and my co-founder had over 40 years. With the ability to place Digital Content (holograms) in the real world it would allow us to present, engineer, diagnose, explain, educate, train, collaborate, and more unlike any way possible before.
Even 3 years into Augmented Reality, we are still only scratching the surface on what can be achieved leverage this technology to solve problems, improve businesses, and increase immersive collaboration. Our Harpra Platform development roadmap is rich with unique features and functions that are just downright exciting, even if a bit of a distance out before being developed.
Michael Southworth, VP of Technology & Co-Founder of Sentiar, using AR to visualize the heart during surgical procedures.
When I first put on VR in the 90's, it was trying to sell me a window into a new world.
When I put on AR in 2016, it was showing me a new way to understand the world around me. I think the promise of this technology that fascinated me was its ability to take extremely complex information and present it in the world around us in a way that makes it far more accessible and intuitive.
For our company, SentiAR, it takes extremely complex electroanatomic data of the heart and helps us present it in a way that both trained physicians and their patients can connect with. Our brains are wired to understand the 3D world around us, and XR helps us tap into that promise in a way that traditional computing currently does not.
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Shake it up, baby, with cocktails at home
A range of drink-at-home cocktails, invented in Birmingham, require you to shake, not stir.
A range of drink-at-home cocktails, invented in Birmingham, require you to shake, not stir. Richard McComb reports.
During his work in real estate investment, Nick Wall travelled the world on business and often found himself holed up in hotel cocktail bars.
He acquired a connoisseur's taste for a classic martini and a well-mixed mojito but was baffled why such drinks weren't available, ready to mix, for cocktail devotees in their homes.
So Nick decided to do just that, setting up his own business, based in Birmingham, producing a range of high-end drinks that he says wouldn't be out of place in a swanky city bar.
The idea chimed perfectly with popular culture fashion trends, riding on the back of cocktail consumption in films such as Sex and the City and cool television dramas such as Mad Men, where the prevalence of Old Fashioneds and Manhattans is matched only by the regularity of smoking.
Nick, who grew up in Edgbaston, set up Tails as a producer of DIY cocktails, authentically packaged in their very own shakers. The drinks are ideal for home entertaining, from house parties to intimate dinners for two. With Valentine's Day almost upon us, Tails should add a shake of glamour to a romantic soiree.
"I am very much a cocktail fan," says Nick, who, as luck would have it, celebrates his (32nd) birthday on Valentine's Day.
"At the time I conceived the idea I was drinking in cocktail bars. One day I was sitting in the bath and I said to myself, 'Can I drink the same quality of cocktails at home without paying the same price that good cocktails demand?' The answer was 'no.'
"I wanted to be able to drink good cocktails at home but there weren't any available."
Nick also latched on to the trend for home drinking, sparked by the recession. People are now more inclined to have a snifter before heading out for dinner, saving on drinks bills. Combined with the public's renewed taste for cocktails and the higher profile given to food and drink in general, thanks to TV cookery shows, Nick sniffed a market opportunity.
He devoted 18 months to market research, carrying out consumer tests to gauge the appeal of his idea for house parties, girls' nights in and romantic get-togethers for couples. Nick says he carried out a blind-tasting against cocktails made by a mixologist at a top London bar, who he agreed not to name. "We beat the bar," adds Nick.
Tails, based in Lower Essex Street, Digbeth, started with a range of three cocktails – a Cosmopolitan, Mai Thai and an Espresso Martini. The drinks cost £11.99 via the website www.theonlineofflicence.co.uk and are also available at top stores such as Harvey Nichols.
Although that might sound a lot, each shaker produces half a litre of liquid, sufficient for four cocktails. That means each drink is effectively £3, well below the level charged for cocktails in hotels and bars, which can range from £6-£7 up to £20.
Cocktail-lovers simply untwist the shaker's mid section, remove the inner foil seal, add a few cubes of ice, close and shake vigorously – just like an experienced barman – until the base is chilled. Then it's just a case of removing the cap, pouring and drinking.
"The hardest trick of a cocktail is balancing the flavour and spirits," says Nick. All his creations have an ABV of 18 per cent, comparable with bar mixed cocktails. "They definitely have a kick to them," adds Nick.
There are plans to extend the range but Nick says he wanted to get the recipes, and the presentation right, before moving on. His launch range had to include the Cosmopolitan, he says, because it is the benchmark for cocktails. "If a barman can do a good Cosmopolitan, everything else will be good," he says. Tails' version combines Italian Triple Sec and premium French vodka with citrus and berry fruits.
The rum-fuelled Mai Tai is a mix of zingy Caribbean and Polynesian influences, tapping into the popularity of the potent distilled juice of sugar cane, and is ideal for serving in a short glass, rather than a martini glass.
Nick describes the Espresso Martini as the "cool, quirky cocktail of today." He says: "I spoke to an enormous amount of mixologists and it seems the espresso martini is the most on trend cocktails in cities."
The drink also provided the biggest challenge: how to get the foam on the top of the cocktail. Nick isn't giving away any secrets. Like any good cocktail drinker, he never kisses and tells.
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package org.innovateuk.ifs.interview;

import org.innovateuk.ifs.BaseRestServiceUnitTest;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.rest.RestResult;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ParameterizedTypeReferences;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.resource.InterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.resource.InterviewApplicationPageResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.resource.InterviewApplicationResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.resource.InterviewResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.service.InterviewAllocationRestServiceImpl;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ParameterizedTypeReferences.interviewApplicationsResourceListType;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ParameterizedTypeReferences.interviewResourceListType;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.builder.InterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResourceBuilder.newInterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.builder.InterviewApplicationPageResourceBuilder.newInterviewApplicationPageResource;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.builder.InterviewApplicationResourceBuilder.newInterviewApplicationResource;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.interview.builder.InterviewResourceBuilder.newInterviewResource;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.springframework.http.HttpStatus.OK;

public class InterviewAllocationRestServiceImplTest extends BaseRestServiceUnitTest<InterviewAllocationRestServiceImpl> {

    private static final String restUrl = "/interview-panel";

    @Override
    protected InterviewAllocationRestServiceImpl registerRestServiceUnderTest() {
        InterviewAllocationRestServiceImpl InterviewAllocateRestService = new InterviewAllocationRestServiceImpl();
        return InterviewAllocateRestService;
    }

    @Test
    public void getAllocateApplicationsOverview() throws Exception {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        int page = 1;

        InterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource expected = newInterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource().build();

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s?page=1", restUrl, "allocate-assessors", competitionId);

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, InterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource.class, expected);

        InterviewAcceptedAssessorsPageResource actual = service.getInterviewAcceptedAssessors(competitionId, page)
                .getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void getAllocatedApplications() {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        long userId = 1L;
        int page = 1;

        InterviewApplicationPageResource expected = newInterviewApplicationPageResource().build();

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s/%s?page=1", restUrl, competitionId, "allocated-applications", userId);

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, InterviewApplicationPageResource.class, expected);

        InterviewApplicationPageResource actual = service.getAllocatedApplications(competitionId, userId, page)
                .getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void getAllocatedApplicationsByAssessorId() {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        long userId = 1L;

        List<InterviewResource> expected = newInterviewResource().build(1);

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s/%s", restUrl, competitionId, "allocated-applications-assessor-id", userId);

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, interviewResourceListType(), expected);

        List<InterviewResource> actual = service.getAllocatedApplicationsByAssessorId(competitionId, userId)
                .getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void getAllAllocatedApplications() {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        List<Long> applicationIds = asList(1L, 2L, 3L);

        List<InterviewApplicationResource> expected = newInterviewApplicationResource().build(3);

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s/%s/%s", restUrl, competitionId, "unallocated-applications", "all", "1,2,3");

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, interviewApplicationsResourceListType(), expected);

        List<InterviewApplicationResource> actual = service.getUnallocatedApplicationsById(competitionId, applicationIds).getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void getUnallocatedApplications() {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        long userId = 1L;
        int page = 1;

        InterviewApplicationPageResource expected = newInterviewApplicationPageResource().build();

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s/%s?page=1", restUrl, competitionId, "unallocated-applications", userId);

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, InterviewApplicationPageResource.class, expected);

        InterviewApplicationPageResource actual = service.getUnallocatedApplications(competitionId, userId, page)
                .getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void getUnallocatedApplicationIds() {
        long competitionId = 1L;
        long userId = 1L;

        List<Long> expected = Collections.singletonList(1L);

        String expectedUrl = format("%s/%s/%s/%s", restUrl, competitionId, "unallocated-application-ids", userId);

        setupGetWithRestResultExpectations(expectedUrl, ParameterizedTypeReferences.longsListType(), expected);

        List<Long> actual = service.getUnallocatedApplicationIds(competitionId, userId)
                .getSuccess();

        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void unallocateApplications() {
        long applicationId = 1L;
        long assessorId = 1L;

        setupPostWithRestResultExpectations(format("%s/%s/%d/%s/%d", restUrl, "allocated-applications", assessorId, "unallocate", applicationId), OK);

        RestResult<Void> restResult = service.unallocateApplication(assessorId, applicationId);
        assertTrue(restResult.isSuccess());
    }
}


We recently released a new version of the Storage Made Easy Android Application, the Android client for the SME Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric.
One of the new features in the updated App was to provide the ability to View, edit and create Microsoft Office files directly from the data stores configured for the SME Sync and Share Appliance.
To be able to do this firstly ensure that you have installed the SME Cloud File Manager from the Android App Store.
We have many users who use our OpenOffice plug-in to easily edit and save their files to/from OpenOffice. This is solution is fairly transparent to the end user as the plug-in installs itself as a toolbar option and is very easy to use. There are numerous blog posts outlining how this can be done. As OpenOffice has a plug-ins site the plug-in is fairly easy to find and download and has a reasonable amount of visibility.
What you may not know is that we also have the same plug-in available for Microsoft Office. This also install itself as a Toolbar plug-in and makes editing and saving files / to-from Google Docs just as transparent as its OpenOffice cousin ! The toolbar is free to download, and a Google Docs account is free to register. The short video below shows how the easy the solution is to work with.
Upload and download your files to the cloud and Amazon S3 with a Windows Explorer as well as Microsoft Office and Open Office !
Well, SMEStorage Explorer is finally released. It is a windows explorer for SMEStorage.com that allows you to upload and download your files to any of the storage platforms we support, which include Amazon S3. If you take part in our OpenS3 programme you can use your Amazon S3 keys and take advantage of using the tool to upload / download files, share files, and collaborate with business groups.
When you install SMEStorage Explorer, if you have Microsoft Office and/or OpenOffice installed you will get another toolbar that allows you to open and save files to the SMEStorage cloud, which again includes Amazon S3. Pretty nice we think. This was built using the SMEStorage REST API.


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The Best Soccer Games Online
The offsides rule does not apply to the team without the ball. A player is offsides when they are closest to the defending team goal or end line than both the ball and the opponents second last player when the ball is played . With the introduction of VAR the margin of offsides has been challenged. Traditionally the human eye would, understandably, not call an offsides to close to call.
Any player who receives a red card will receive an automatic 1 game suspension for the team's next scheduled game. Multiple game suspensions for fighting, severe fouls, or extreme unsportsmanlike behavior are up to the discretion of Players Sport & Social Group. Penal fouls committed inside the penalty area by the defense will all soccer games online result in a penalty kick 12 paces/yards out. All players on the field must be behind the ball and outside of the penalty area until it is kicked.
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You never know what's around the corner, so follow our guide on how to watch World Cup 2022 on soccer streams in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India. We've included free-to-air World Cup coverage, free trials and straightforward instructions on how to use a VPN to live stream World Cup games in any language and location. Konami made a "Season Update" to focus on the development.
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The player here is more into a managerial position than a playing position.
It's available globally on the web and mobile devices, in five languages with more to follow. In recent decades, association football has become much more of a tactical game. Now opponents and managers focus on playing to their team's strengths while exploiting their rival's weaknesses. With improved technology and extensive knowledge of the game, the game will likely look quite different in just a few years. Consequently, soccer goalies are now expected to be much better with their feet at all levels of the game.
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Our findings include issues related to late payments or bets not honored, negative customer service experience, and other nefarious activities. We strongly advise you to avoid these blacklisted betting sites at all costs. Newcomers to soccer betting need to know about the vigorish, often referred to in North America as the vig or juice. This refers to the handling fee applied to your bets by online sportsbooks. Anyone who enjoys games such as GoalTycoon and Rocking Soccer Football will not be disappointed with this platform. Game live football Matthew Tkaczak suspended for 2 matches for poking Quick`s mask with a club.
You can also see your current position along with the status of other players on the scoreboard. Keeping in mind both categories, here in this article, we have listed some of the best Football games for Android; Online and Offline. With high screen resolution and advanced graphics, Android phones serve as an excellent platform for playing Football. Had a minor issue and it was addressed in less than 24 hours.
This example shows how a virtual prize and real life prize can work in harmony, however no real life prize is necessary for our games ecosystem to function. The online mode certainly extends play time, and the the story mode caps out at roughly 60 matches. Matches can be as short as two minutes each if you're trying to run through them. For less than $10, this game is not meant to have prolonged seasons like FIFA's career mode, so just running through the initial story arc should be good enough for most players. Rotate Soccer is a classic puzzle game with soccer theme, perfect for taking a quick break to train your brain.
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BREAKING: President Trump says he plans to ban TikTok from the U.S.
Nickie Louise Posted On July 31, 2020
About 5 hours ago we wrote about a report that Microsoft is in talks to buy China's TikTok U.S. operations. Now, it seems ByteDance-owned TikTok has no option left but to sell U.S investor. According to a report from AP aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump says he plans to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform from operating in the United States as soon as Saturday.
President Trump made the announcement to reporters Friday on Air Force One as he returned from Tampa, Florida. The President said:
"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States,"
TikTok has faced scrutiny from the U.S. government over its handling of user data and amid larger tensions between the United States and China. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States is "looking at" banning popular Chinese video app TikTok in the wake of the new law in Hong Kong.
TikTok, a social video app which allows users to create short videos with special effects and has become wildly popular with teenagers in the US. Earlier this year, TikTok was the third most popular app among US teens. Currently, TikTok has more than 800 million users worldwide.
Here's why President Trump is banning TikTok in the U.S. TikTok's data collection should worry and scare every American


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Pierre Bernard is a graphic designer and comedian for the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He worked in the same capacity for O'Brien's previous show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, on which he was featured in a segment titled "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage". In this segment, he complained at length about things that angered him, usually relating to comics, science-fiction or other "geeky" topics.
During one of these segments, Pierre complained about Stargate SG-1; specifically that Daniel Jackson's return to the series in season 7 meant less action sequences in the series. When SG-1 show-runners saw this segment, they offered Pierre a cameo role in the series.
Pierre portrayed the character O'Brien, named so as a reference to Conan O'Brien, in the episode "Zero Hour". His experience on-set was recorded and aired on Late Night, including a clip in which an off-screen Daniel Jackson shoots and kills Pierre.
He was invited back for another cameo in the episode "200", in which he plays Zombie O'Brien and is shot and "killed" by Cameron Mitchell.
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Resurfacing of Vanocker Canyon outside of Sturgis in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.
Paving St. Francis St. and St. Anne St. as part of the Mount Rushmore Road Reconstruction Project.
New parking lot for St Therese Church located in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Making Class C Riprap near the South Dakota and Wyoming border. This job also includes our Element Trucking, LLC services to deliver materials to Orman Dam in North Dakota.
New parking lot paving for the Clearly Building in Summerset, South Dakota.
This Western Construction project took place during the summer of 2012. Western Construction supplied a shoulder widening project with over 200,000 tons of base course. We also moved our portable plant closer to the project site to reduce trucking costs, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the project.
During this project we worked on crushing gravel at the Rapid City Regional Airport pit, where we produce engineered fill it, base course, and gravel surfacing. We keep retail gravel in stock at Western Construction year round for sale to the general public.
This gravel surfacing project near Wall, South Dakota took place during early 2016. We made gravel surfacing for the county and various townships near Wall. We performed 100 percent of the work, including stripping, crushing, and reclamation, totaling 50,000 tons.
This project took place near Tilford, South Dakota during the spring of 2015. Two different types of material were produced: gravel surfacing and base course. We made over 75,000 tons of gravel.
We shaped and laid nine miles of gravel surfacing on Big Foot Road, located in Eastern Pennington County. We made the gravel, tucked the gravel and laid the gravel, DOT gravel surfacing. This project took place during October of 2016 and we used GPS to lay the final surface.


Posted Breed: Siberian Husky / Alaskan Malamute / Mixed (short coat).
Please note we do NOT adopt to homes with small animals including small dogs. No Exceptions. Siberian Husky NTERVIEW WITH AKIRA!! Hi everyone! I'm Akira and I want you to be my human!! I am about 2 - 3 years old and am looking for my forever home. I love all people and I especially like having my belly rubbed. While I would love to have human brothers and sisters to play with, I would like to be the only dog in the house. While, like all dogs and people, I love food, I am very respectful of your food and know "No", "leave it" and am great with "drop it". If you're snacking at the coffee table I will come up and sniff but if you tell me it's not for me, I'll just lay down nearby to hang out with you! I am also a great buddy for a meal and a night out on the town! I love just hanging out with my people, riding in the car and going on adventures. I am very polite sitting/laying underneath tables on patios at restaurants (and charming everyone around into petting me!) Like I said before, I LOVE all people! If you sit on the floor, I will dive into your lap to have my belly rubbed. Because of my classic husky good looks, people stop me all the time to pet me and it's my favorite! I am very gentle with kids of all ages and am super tolerant of being grabbed or even picked up. I also know "sit" and "shake", have almost mastered "down" and could learn so much more! I am very good at sitting at intersections and only crossing the street when you say it's time. More importantly, I am trained to lick your face if you make kissy noises! .I do get defensive around other dogs but I feel much better if I know my human is looking out for me. It may take some time and trust but with some socialization training I could definitely become more comfortable with your help! I sleep in my crate now but if you're cool with it I would love to sleep nearer to my people. I am potty trained but I do not bark or howl (about anything, really) so when I start pacing near the door it means it's walk time! I would love to be part of your family! If you want to meet me too please contact rescuenorsled If you are interested in any of the dogs, the first step is to fill out an adoption questionnaire found on our website and email it back to rescuenorsled.


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A woman discovered her beloved cat is still alive after vanishing 9 years ago. What happens next will surprise you
Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 6:53pm ET
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Harriet finds a new place to call home. Pic Credit: Washington Post/Website
Susan Moore's beloved cat went missing nine years ago from her ranch in central California. To her astonishment, she received a phone call last month that would change her life.
Her long-lost cat Harriet had been found over 1,000 miles away in Idaho alive and well. This remarkable rescue story is unique as not only did Harriet survive, but she gained a new home, not in the manner you'd expect.
Harriet's mother, Moore, lived on a 41- acre ranch near Clovis, California, when her tabby cat went missing. Luckily, Moore had her precious cat microchipped with a recovery service for lost pets.
Unfortunately, despite taking those measures, she never found her missing cat, Harriet. Devasted and distraught, Moore had cared for her beloved cat for three years since she was a kitten.
After time went by, she assumed her cat had passed away and mourned her.
Miracle recovery
Then on September 19th, Moore received a life-changing phone call from an animal shelter in Hayden, Idaho. A worker informed Moore her beloved cat Harriet had been found.
Because the cat had a microchip, they recovered her contact information. A good Samaritan found the homeless cat and brought her to the animal shelter.
Moore remained stunned at the newfound discovery her cat was alive and over 1,000 miles away in Idaho. It's unknown how Harriet survived for over a decade.
Harriet, the long lost cat, is found 1,000 miles away from home. Pic Credit:@Washington Post/Website
Vicky Nelson, an employee at the Kootenai Humane Society, also remained baffled at the cat's remarkable story. Despite all the odds, the cat was still healthy and in good shape.
A case like this provides a prime example of why microchipping is so important.
A twist of fate
After processing the shock of this miraculous news, Moore prepared to arrange for Harriet to return home. However, now at 13 years old, would Harriet still remember her?
The local news media reported on cat Harriet's extraordinary story and immediately received an inquiry from one of the shelter's volunteers to take Harriet. Worker Maureen Wright had been looking for a senior cat to be a part of her home, where she actively fosters other older cats and dogs.
With the blessing of former mother Moore, new mom Wright took Harriet to her home.
Isis has found a loving home with volunteer Maureen Wright. Pic Credit:@Washington Post/Website
Harriet has undergone a name change. The cat's new name is Isis, after the Egyptian goddess.
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Q: gnuplot won't draw a function sqrt(2/10)*sin((3.14/10)*x) Gnuplot won't seem to draw a function:
sqrt(2/10)*sin((3.14/10)*x)

Could anyone tell me why. I tried to draw it in Wolfram alpha and it worked compleetely fine there.

A: Most probably the 2/10 is computed as integer division and zeros everything else out.
Change it to:
sqrt(2.0/10.0)*sin((3.14/10.0)*x)

Or:
sqrt(0.2)*sin(0.314*x)


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Clarinet still reigns as the king of swing
By David Steinberg / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 8:48am
Updated: Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 1:59pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Reed player Arlen Asher has quite a selection of instruments in his closet. Asher can bring out a variety of clarinets, saxophones and flutes.
For concerts Saturday, June 4, in Albuquerque and June 23 in Santa Fe, he will haul out his B-flat clarinet, the first musical instrument he learned. He'll be playing many tunes associated with swing bands led by Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Woody Herman, all clarinetists.
"The whole idea of this concert is to play music that they made famous," Asher said.
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Most of the tunes on the program are those associated with Goodman and Shaw. Among them will be "Moonglow," "Sing Sing Sing" and "Good-bye," all associated with Goodman. "Begin the Beguine," "Summit Ridge Drive" and "Frenesí," all made famous by Shaw, are on the bill. Plus there's the Herman band's theme song, "Woodchopper's Ball," which Asher said is the only Herman number on the program.
"I grew up with that music and kind of remember them more than anybody else because nobody is as old as I am," joked the 82-year-old Asher.
Joining him in the performances will be pianist Bert Dalton, bassist Michael Glynn and drummer Cal Haines. Asher and Haines picked the tunes for the program.
"We did the (clarinet concert) last year in Santa Fe. It was such a success and the music is so much fun to play," Haines said.
Goodman, Shaw and Herman represented the first time that a clarinet was an orchestra's front instrument, he said.
Haines said he invited Asher to play with the quartet for the concerts because "he's one of the masters in clarinet here, for sure."
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This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is de Oliveiraand the second or paternal family name is Ferreira.
Ferreira competing in the cross-country race at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Tiago Jorge de Oliveira Ferreira
(1988-12-07) 7 December 1988 (age 32)
Viseu, Portugal
Team Protek [1]
Major wins
MTB Marathon World Championships (2016)
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Men's cross-country marathon
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2016 Laissac Men's
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Tiago Jorge de Oliveira Ferreira (born 7 December 1988) is a Portuguese mountain biker from Viseu, [2] who specialises in the cross-country discipline.
In June 2016, he won the cross-country marathon silver medal at the European Championships in Sigulda, Latvia. [3] Three weeks later, he won the gold medal at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Laissac, France, [4] becoming the second Portuguese cyclist to win a world championship title, after Rui Costa. [5]
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↑ "Team Protek by Marconi Project's". MTBCrossCountry.com. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
↑ "Tiago Ferreira" (in Portuguese). Olympic Committee of Portugal . Retrieved 26 June 2016.
↑ "Tiago Ferreira vice-campeão europeu de maratonas" (in Portuguese). Portuguese Cycling Federation. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
↑ "ROC Laissagais – Championnats du Monde Mountain Bike Marathon 2016" (PDF) (in French). Roc Laissagais. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
↑ "Tiago Ferreira campeão do Mundo de Maratonas" (in Portuguese). Portuguese Cycling Federation. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
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Saint-Cyr (; Vivaro-Alpine: Sant Circ) is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

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Increasing scope of Medicine in New Zealand
The demand for professionals in medicine is rising in New Zealand, whilst the student immigration is eased out and education funding is maximised in the country.
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New Zealand is emerging as an attractive and inviting study destination as the visa process is made quicker and larger amount of funds are rendered towards education in the country. This means the facilities offered at universities are of higher standard including research, faculty, career services and the campus.
Careers in Health and Medicine are among the most desirable, rewarding and demanding careers in New Zealand. Sean Brunner, the director of Robert Walter's Wellington Office, emphasised the demand for specialists in the field of health and medicine when he said that 'the health care sector is asking for skills around change management, people leadership, getting people on board with change, driving efficiencies in business and improving procurement procedures.'
Schemes to promote careers in Medicine and Health are being conducted in the country as the medical setups in New Zealand are lacking professionals in the field. These schemes include the 'Grow Your Own Workforce Programme' and 'Health Could B 4 U'. These programmes are encouraging students to study sciences and take up courses that teach the practical and technical skills of medicine.
The international students are also being welcomed to study in New Zealand's institutes and progress with their careers in the country. It is an attractive option for students as the jobs for health specialists in the country are rewarding and high in demand at the moment.
Many universities including, University of Waikato, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington have excellent programmes of Health Care and Medicine that you can choose from. There is a higher scope of research in the field too!
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This report features insights into the global mobile gaming market of 2016 as well as certain predictions made and supported by the leading business intelligence portals, analyst firms and market research agencies alike. This data aims to serve all industries focusing on mobile marketing and strategy, market analysis and brand development.
In 2016, global app revenues reached a staggering point of $44.8Bn, 82% of which were generated by gaming apps alone. This number will keep gaining momentum by 2020, the year that most marketers predict to show a gigantic increase up to $80.6 billion. Despite such steady growth the share of app revenues from games is believed to make a cutback: from 82% to 72% within the same period.
2015 was a glorious year for China when it overtook the US in total app revenues. China's considerable territory and broad potential have turned this particular region into a bounty state for gaming apps and the whole of mobile industry in general. It's been estimated that China's share of games will not only remain higher than its closest competitor, the USA, but the mobile games market will in fact continue to expand over the period of the next few years. The number of players and in-app revenues will show a strong increase.
Asian mobile gamers' fascination with Simulation games on Android allowed this category to elevate to 17.4% supporting its success with apps like Gun Camera 3D Simulator, Food Trucks Pizza Game and Raft Survival. Action games are positioned relatively close on both platforms with Android leading by 1.2% leaving iOS behind with the humble 12.4%. The categories where iOS games did fight back include Role Playing (9.7%), Card (7.5%) and Strategy (6.6%).
Top Grossing games as we look back at December 2016 demonstrated an assortment of apps that consisted of Role Playing x3, Strategy x1 and Casual x1.
The US, the second biggest gaming market after China, with the titans of the app developing world dominating the country, year by year establishing tight competition and offering their fans hours of entertainment and remarkable gameplay.
Statista provides information on the market reach of the most popular Android gaming apps in the United States as of December 2016. The TOP beloved games include such big names as Candy Crush Saga (19.42%) that showed a real breakthrough leaving behind country's other favourites Subway Surfers (9.18%), Temple Run 2 (7.18%), Solitaire (6.77%) and Pet Rescue Saga (6.24%).
Digging deeper we wanted to analyze top free and grossing gaming categories back to back to extract more insights as to revenues, user behaviour and probable estimations that would help bend the mainstream market in your favour.
Free Gaming iOS Apps USA as of 14th Feb 2017
Grossing Gaming iOS Apps USA as of 14th Feb 2017
In our previous reports we stressed out the fact that Android tends to attract a larger gaming community that is not shy of spending quite a bit of digital cash.
Free Gaming Android Apps USA as of 14th Feb 2017
Grossing Gaming Android Apps USA as of 14th Feb 2017
iOS gaming community shows a particular interest in Action games with most recent entry of Cash me outside by Anonymous Inc already making its steady steps towards conquering the top charts.
The factual difference between iOS and Android Casino grossing apps was probably the most unpredictable data to come across. Game - Casino is the second largest subcategory on Google Play Store coming only 0.5% short of Strategy grossing apps.
Japan, the third lucrative market in the top list. The market highlights that can make or break a deal, especially for a startup developer or marketing strategist, should be taken into close consideration.
Revenue in the "Mobile Games" segment amounts to US$6,184m in 2017.
Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2017-2021) of 0.3 % resulting in a market volume of US$6,262m in 2021.
User penetration is at 62.8 % in 2017 and is expected to hit 63.5 % in 2021.
The average revenue per user (ARPU) currently amounts to US$90.25.
In order to understand the gaming industry we couldn't ignore the chart below that represents the market share held by the leading operating systems in Japan based on smartphone sales from 2013 to 2016.
iOS saw its peak of popularity back in 2013 but since March of the past year Android has taken full control over its main rival.
Alternative report by AppAnnie suggests that previously Google Play monetized just as much as iOS resulting in total app revenue growth of approximately 25% between 2014 and 2015. Most of that monetization has been concentrated at the top gaming publishers. In 2015, the top 10 games took almost 50% of all gaming revenue. In 2015, games in the RPG (Role-Playing Games) and Casual categories, as defined by Dentsu, accounted for more than 75% of game downloads and more than 75% of all time spent in games. However, RPGs monetized much more efficiently and made up almost 70% of all revenue.
Today we've come across a rather equal distribution among Top 1000 iOS apps within the Games category. In the country driven by technology and know-how, we'd expect to see a larger share for Kids apps. On the one hand, this could be a positive indicator for the young and their parents, but on the other hand, a tough task for the developers wanting to find recognition with wider audiences.
What publishers don't have to worry about is the revenue they should be expecting to collect for Simulation (17.5%), Role Playing (16.2%) and Adventure (12%) games as these came as the leading categories in the Grossing apps statistics.
When it comes to Android mobile games, the chart below serves as a flashback of the grandeur of RPGs.
Top iOS and Android statistics by Apptopia for Feb 14 reveal a few apps familiar to the Western eye, but the majority of the top games are those developed locally.
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Apart from its important status as the place where the Emerald Buddha is enshrined, the magnificent architectural style, the splendid decorations of the temple, and the mural paintings along the winding corridor, depicting the Thai version of the Indian epic the Ramayana, which consist of 178 sections and is considered the longest mural of the world, are also the temple's main attractions to the visitors
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Q: Calling external python functions in file .py using ASP .NET MVC In ASP.NET MVC Application, I has an XML file. I also has an python function execute(xml_file) that take this xml file as an input in a test.py ( written in python3). This function will execute this xml file and return for me the list of results. And I want ASP .NET will take that result and display. How I can call that external module in ASP .NET MVC?

A: You could start a new Process on C# code to run python and run your script.
You could start a new process calling the python. See the sample with comments:
ProcessStartInfo start = new ProcessStartInfo();

// full path of python exe
start.FileName = "c:\\Python\\Python.exe";

string cmd = "C:\\scripts\\test.py";
string args = "";

// define the script with arguments (if you need them).
start.Arguments = string.Format("\"{0}\" \"{1}\"", cmd, args);

// Do not use OS shell
start.UseShellExecute = false;

// You do not need new window
start.CreateNoWindow = true;

// Any output, generated by application will be redirected back
start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

// Any error in standard output will be redirected back (for example exceptions)
start.RedirectStandardError = true;

// start the process
using (Process process = Process.Start(start))
{
    using (StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput)
    {
        // Here are the exceptions from our Python script
        string stderr = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd();

        // Here is the result of StdOut(for example: print "test")
        string result = reader.ReadToEnd();

        return result;
    }
}